Among the page 2 "Deaths" is one that reads: "At his residence at Hamilton College, in New-York State, after a...severe attack of the fever, The Reverend Doctor Backus, President of that Institution....[he] was universally considered...one of the most eminent preachers and divines in the country. Upon the establishment of Hamilton College, he was chosen the first President, and have ever since presided over that seminary..."

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